| kill bacterium | 14.88 | Cooking kills the bacteria. | ||
| contain bacterium | 3.23 | By its very nature, raw meat will contain some bacteria. | ||
| find bacterium | 2.90 | Anthrax bacteria are found in the blood of animals. | ||
| carry bacterium | 2.24 | Nearly a third carried the bacterium. | ||
| detect bacterium | 1.84 | The child recovered and the bacteria were not detected again until July. | ||
| spread bacterium | 1.51 | The bacteria are spread through saliva. | ||
| use bacterium | 1.45 | Now they are using bacteria that eat creosote. | ||
| reduce bacterium | 1.38 | Variations are expressed as sulphate reducing bacteria. | ||
| destroy bacterium | 1.32 | But antibiotics destroy bacteria, not viruses. | ||
| transmit bacterium | 1.18 | Plague comes from the bites of fleas that transmit bacteria from rodents. | ||
| have bacterium | 0.99 | Aphids have bacteria in their guts that help them digest food. | ||
| identify bacterium | 0.86 | The other was to identify bacteria by examining DNA. | ||
| harbor bacterium | 0.72 | So should unpasteurized milk, juice and cheeses, which may harbor harmful bacteria. | ||
| keep bacterium | 0.72 | Saliva keeps bacteria under control. | ||
| attack bacterium | 0.66 | Some viruses attack bacteria, others attack body cells. | ||
| eliminate bacterium | 0.66 | The test can be repeated to make sure the bacteria have been eliminated. | ||
| infect bacterium | 0.66 | These young phages drift off to infect more bacteria. | ||
| inhale bacterium | 0.66 | The Florida man killed by anthrax inhaled the bacteria. | ||
| fight bacterium | 0.59 | Some companies are developing clothes that fight bacteria. | ||
| include bacterium | 0.59 | These resistant microbes may include bacteria that were present from the start. |